Third Workshop on Blockchain Technologies and its Applications

Call for Papers / Demos:

The promise of
blockchain has captivated the imagination of philosophers,
administrators, governments, businesses, academicians,
economists, et al alike. We are organizing a workshop on
blockchain technologies to gather the practitioners of
blockchain technologies from different backgrounds to
present their previously unpublished works. In this third
edition of the Workshop, there will be a considerable
participation from our collaborators
from Griffith
University, University
of New South
Wales, Data61
CSIRO working on blockchain technologies. We encourage
students and industry practitioners to make use of this
opportunity to present their works and interact with the
blockchain fraternity to validate their works. Authors of
the accepted papers will have a choice to indicate their
preference for the venue of presentation; since this
workshop is being conducted in two legs
(IIT Bombay
and IDRBT
Hyderabad).

The best 4 accepted papers in banking domain will be
shepherded to appear in the research proceedings of IDRBT
(Institute for Development and Research in Banking
Technology). All accepted papers will appear online as a
Technical Report of IIT Bombay.

Submission Guidelines:

The Manuscript Submissions should not exceed
8 pages in length, in IEEE CPS
double-column format. Authors
are requested to upload their manuscripts in PDF format to
EasyChair.

For Demo Submissions, you are requested to
prepare a 2-3 minute long video (at most 5 minutes) and
provide its link in your submission. The write-up
describing the important facets of your use-case should
follow the above mentioned Manuscript Submission
style. The manuscript's title must start with the word
"Demo: " and should be uploaded in PDF format
to EasyChair. You
will be required to present your Demo during the event. At
the end of the Demo Session, there will be an exchange
between the researchers and practitioners regarding
categorization of challenges into: research, engineering,
policy et al., such that new problem statements can be
formulated for all stakeholders.

Program Committee: (tentative)

RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay (General Chair)

Vishwas T Patil, IIT Bombay (Organization Co-chair)

NV Narendra Kumar, IDRBT Hyderabad (Organization Co-chair)

Gupta Boda, NABARD India (Co-chair, Demo track)

Mayank Lau, DSCI India (Co-chair, Demo track)

Umesh Belur, IIT Bombay

Kamanashis Biswas, Griffith University

Mohan Dhawan, IBM Research India

Roberto Di Pietro, HBKU Qatar

Jin Song Dong, Griffith University

Raj Gaire, CSIRO Australia

Sarthak Gaurav, SJSOM/IIT Bombay

Praveen Jayachandran, IBM Research India

Salil Kanhere, UNSW Australia

Aniket Kate, Purdue USA

Anish Mathuria, DAIICT Gandhinagar

Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy, Griffith University

Pramod Nair, HDFC Bank India

Surya Nepal, CSIRO Australia

Vinod Panicker, Wipro India

S Raghavasuresh, TCS India

Vinay Riberio, IIT Delhi

Sushmita Ruj, ISI Kolkata

Sandeep Shukla, IIT Kanpur

Virendra Singh, IIT Bombay

Saravanan Vijayakumaran, IIT Bombay

Important Dates:

Submission deadline:

Dec 31, 2018 (closed)

Acceptance notification:

Jan 15, 2019

Camera-ready deadline:

Jan 26, 2019

Registration deadline:

Jan 24, 2019

Registration:

All attendees are required to
register for the event. There is no registration fees but
registration is mandatory so that we can decide the venue
and refreshments.